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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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CANNEL, n.2 Also canele. Cinnamon (Abd. 1773 Weekly Mag. (7 Jan.) 40); in pl. sticks or strips of cinnamon bark. Comb. cannel gill, a gill of a kind of cordial or toddy of spirits flavoured with cinnamon.Sc. 1721 in Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) II. 71:
Strains, that warm our Hearts like Cannel Gill. Sc. 1748 G. W. J. Omond Arniston Memoirs (1887) 108:
Apples, with canels.

[O.Sc. cannel, c.1489, Mid.Eng. canele, O.Fr. canelle, id. The word became obs. in Eng. in the 17th c.]

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